Laboratory for Undergraduate Instruction and Research in Psychology

一个本科教学和研究实验室为心理学本科生提供科学方法论和信息技术的基础，使他们能够在随后的职业生涯中使用和解释研究结果。这些技能在我们社会的各个领域变得越来越重要。该实验室为匹兹堡大学（University of Pittsburgh）的大约500名学生提供服务，其中一半以上是女性。匹兹堡大学以招收和留住非裔美国人而闻名。新开发的E-Prime软件正在进行改造，以供实验室使用。E-Prime通过使学生在普通实验课程中开发、设计、实施和分析他们自己的实验，为更有效的研究原则教学提供了基础。学生可以使用多种方法，包括行为和生理测量的收集、脑成像数据的重新分析以及数字化面部表情的编码，来生成和执行新的实验，并获得经验。实验活动，包括E-Prime的使用，正在被改编为所有专业都需要的实验方法的通识课程，以及两个实质性的高级课程：a)学习与动机和b)人类认知与学习。该实验室也可供学生进行定向个人研究和荣誉论文，这两项都涉及进行实证研究。在美国国家科学基金会的支持下，我们正在对信息技术在心理学本科生研究方法教学中的应用方式产生重大影响，心理学是美国最大的本科专业之一。这个项目有机会通过我们的工业合作伙伴心理学软件工具的实验开发和测试，在全国范围内影响科学教育。最终，这些实验和相关的教学材料可能每年被成千上万的本科生使用。

Psychology - Cognitive (73) An undergraduate laboratory for instruction and research is providing undergraduate psychology students with the foundation in scientific methodology and information technology that will enable them to use and interpret research in their subsequent careers. Such skills are becoming increasingly important in all sectors of our society. The lab serves approximately 500 students, well over half of whom are female, at the University of Pittsburgh, an institution that has been recognized for its recruitment and retention of African Americans. The newly developed E-Prime software is being adapted for use in the laboratory. E-Prime provides the basis for far more effective teaching of research principles by enabling students in normal laboratory courses to develop, design, conduct, and analyze their own experiments. Students can generate and perform novelexperiments as well as gain experience using a wide range of methodologies, including the collection of behavioral and physiological measures, the re-analysis of brain imaging data, and the coding of digitized facial expressions. Lab activities, involving the use of E-Prime, are being adapted for a general course in Experimental Methods that is required of all majors, as well as two substantive upper level courses: a) Learning and Motivation and b) Human Cognition and Learning. The lab is also available to students doing Directed Individual Research and Honors Theses, both of which involve conducting empirical research. With NSF support, we are having a major impact on the way information technology is utilized in the teaching of research methodology for undergraduate students of psychology, one of the largest undergraduate majors in the country. This project has the opportunity to affect science education on a national scale through the development and testing of experiments that are distributed through our industrial partner, Psychology Software Tools. Ultimately, the experiments and related instructional materials are likely to be used by tens of thousands of undergraduates annually.